No Child Left Beind

No child left behind, (commonly know as Nclb) was put into act on January 8th, 2002. This is a United States federal law that changes a number of federal programs that try to improve the skill level of U.S.'s primary and secondary schools by increasing the standards of accountability for states, school districts and schools. Making it easier for parents to undrstand what school is best for their child. (Bib). Although the name of the law sounds great, this program is not good for many of the schools in America. By grouping all of the students together without accounting learning disabilites and or different learning needs. Therefore funding for the school suffers, making it harder for the school to reach out and help every individual student instead of grouping all the students into one category. This program also allows the United states goverement to have your information including your phone number and home address and allows milatary recruiters to call you as soon as you turn of age. NCLB is not a good law because

it groups all students together, and totally ingornes the privacy of them.

One problem that circulates in no child left behind is the pressure that it puts on kids to perform well. Teavhers understand that the better the students collectively do on this test, the more money they can get to teacher children better. Studies have shown that there has been a significan drop in reading between the grades of third and fourth due to being burned out in fundamentals in the third grade to prepare for the test taken to rate the schools. "In a 2006 survey by Scholastic Inc., 40 percent of kids between the ages of 5 and 8 read every day. At fourth grade, though, that rate declined to 29 percent."(bib). Part of the reason behind these numbers is because children at still learning to read in third grade, but in fourth grade, cirruculum switches and kids are now forced to read, for learning purposes.

In other cases No child left behind has sent schools on probabation, making teachers re- apply for their license if certain requirements arent made. No child left behind sets the bar for all schools to reach a certain proficiany point. The problem is that certain schools with a lower surrounding income area have less tools to teach children because they don't have enough money. It is a simple thought. How can schools with less money perform at the same level as wealthier schools who

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